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Reclining Naiad
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Published 2021-01-22T10:37:36+00:00
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This is a variant of the Reclining Venus with Cupid, now in Buckingham Palace, which was made for Lord Cawdor in 1814 and ceded by him to the Prince Regent. This work, commissioned by the fourth earl of Darnley, was completed by Canova's assistants after his death and delivered to the earl at Cobham Hall in Kent in 1824.
The original plaster model for the Naiad, completed in 1817, is in the Gipsoteca di Possagno. Compositional prototypes include Canova's Pauline Borghese as Venus Victrix and an ancient Hermaphrodite, both in the Borghese Gallery, Rome. Numerous slight indentations throughout the marble may be visible remains of the pointing system.
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| Date published | 22/01/2021 |
| Complexity | Medium |
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| Title | Reclining Naiad |
| Date | 1819-24 |
| Dimension | Overall (wt. confirmed): 35 × 75 × 32 1/2 in., 2558 lb. (88.9 × 190.5 × 82.6 cm, 1160.3 kg) |
| Accession | 1970.1 |
| Period | Neoclassical |
| Medium | Carrara marble |
| Credit | Purchase, Mrs. Joseph A. Neff Gift, in memory of Joseph A. Neff, 1970 |
| Record | https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/205177 |
| Artist | Antonio Canova |
| Place | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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